O’Brien illustrates the physical and emotional barrier Vietnam creates between men and women. The letters soldiers write to their girlfriends in the United States demonstrate the physical barrier between the two genders. O’Brien describes a soldier’s relationship with a girl in America: “First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey” (O’Brien 1). Vietnam physically separates men from…
How do soldiers deal with relationships at home and while serving in a war? Paul was faced with many moral decisions brought on by the war. Paul and Kat struggled on what to do when they come up to the Fair Haired Recruit; latter Paul stuck with Kropp though his injuries to make sure he stayed safe. When Paul was on leave, he longed to be with back with his fellow soldiers, because being at home was complicated. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque, Paul’s life before the war was that of a school boy who had a healthy relationships and dreams. Paul says his future has been stolen and he is forever damaged because of what he has seen and experienced while fighting .…
Ernest Hemingway’s short story Soldier’s Home is about a young man named Harold Krebs who has just come back from the war. Throughout the story Krebs deals with many struggles within himself. He no longer has the effort to have a relationship with any of the girls in his hometown. Since he arrived much later than most of the soldiers, all the stories he wants to discuss are nothing but dull to everyone. His experience in the war changed Krebs and he doesn’t seem to acknowledge it. Deeper into the story, Krebs father makes it clear that no one can drive the family car. As the story continues, Krebs father later discusses that Kreb is allowed to use it since his return from the war. This particular scene was very important because it showed the extent of change Kreb was in. Due to all the change Kreb faced after the war, Kreb’s views of life changed completely, which…
When the men were in service, many betrayed their fiancés and wives, adopting adulterous behavior while overseas. Meanwhile, at home many women gain a sense of entitlement and begin to take many jobs that the men had. This caused for many years of lies and excuses in relationships around the United States following World War II. Wilson establishes this idea that because of the war there was a period of time where many shared love without emotion. Given that this is a novel, Wilson was able to make the main characters Tom and Betsy the stereotypical middle class post-war couple, and use that to his advantage.…
In “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway, the character’s emotions and behavior is most significant. The main character, Krebs describes his time since he has been home and expresses his emotions and thoughts as he comes back to regular life. He has a tough time with this however. When he first got home, he was willing to try and re-enter society, yet nobody wanted to hear the truth about what happened. They all wanted lies. Hemingway wrote, “ Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it…Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie.” (187) I believe this altered his mental state later. Lying and not being able to tell the truth made him nauseated as well as forced him to isolate himself from others and hold all…
Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel, and the Argonne were the sites of fierce and bloody fighting. What effect have these battles had on Krebs? Why do you think he won’t talk about them to the people at home? – Page 190…
Paul Baumer is one of the many young men who share this fate. Throughout the novel, he expresses his disillusionment with the ordinary life on numerous occasions: he does not feel home at the house of his family, his civilian clothes “feel[s] awkward”, and, overall, he thinks that people who have not been through war cannot understand him (Remarque 164). He is longing for home and his ordinary life; however “a sense of strangeness will not leave [him], [he] cannot feel at home among these things”, he thinks that there is “a veil, between” him, his sister, and his mother. The reason for that is not that they stopped loving each other after he went to the war; the reason is that despite the fact that they love him and sympathize with him, they cannot understand the reality of the war (Remarque 160). Other people want to hear about his and German army exploits and treat him as props who is at war to bring glory to the nation. They speak convincing words about glory, fame, and progress, and youth like Paul believes them, at first; however, after they see their friends dying and other terrors that war brings it all loses its meaning. Paul admits that sometimes he is jealous of people who just live their civilian lives; however, on…
Ernest Hemingway’s Soldiers Home discusses a young man who lives his life in solitude after returning home from the war. Harold Krebs, a World War I veteran, attended school at a Methodist college in Kansas but enlisted in the Marines in 1917. Krebs now lives at home with his father, mother and two sisters where he spends his days reading books or playing pool. Krebs is careful to keep his life simple due to the fact that he isn’t fond of change. Is Harold Krebs apprehensive to making a change in his daily lifestyle?…
This article effectively uses evidence from “The Thing They Carried” to back up her ideas about why the story having an idea (female) reader. Having plenty evidence, Pamela Smiley goes on with the ideal female reader because of the story being a love story and not a typical war story. She elaborates the solider emotions of the women they had talked about in the “The Things They Carried”. However, the article would be stronger if it was also support with actual…
Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” is a tremendous story about a young soldier’s battle to find himself after returning from the war. In this story, Hemingway’s character Krebs leaves for the war as a young upscale college student and returns a couple of years later out of touch with society and lost within himself. The main conflict in the story is the struggle in which Krebs faces as he tries to rediscover where he belongs not only in the world, but also inside himself.…
The Krebs cycle, also known as the Citric Acid cycle, is a very important process in cellular respiration. Without this portion, respiration would not be possible. This is because the Krebs cycle uses the pyruvate molecules from glycolysis to produce high energy molecules essential for the electron transport chain (ETC) which follows soon after.…
Several things occur in the Krebs cycle. It takes place in the mitochondrial matrix. The electron transport chain is located in the cristae of a mitochondria. The enzymes used during the Krebs cycle are found within the mitochondrial matrix excluding succinate dehydrogenase, which is bound to the inner mitochondrial membrane. Protein complexes located in the inner membrane perform the transfer and the gradual release of energy is used to pump protons into the intermembrane space of the mitochondria. Some components of the electron transport system are embedded into the inner membrane.…
During World War I, it was the accepted social norm that women belonged in the kitchen. They took the back seat to men, specializing in cooking and cleaning. They were the caretaker of the home and the raiser of the children. Catherine Barkley is an impeccable example of this social norm in Ernest Hemingway's, A Farewell to Arms. Her submissive nature is key to the existence of the story. So important, in fact, that the story may not be at all possible without it. She submits to Lieutenant Henry's flirtatious passes immediately, triggering their romantic relationship before he injures his leg. She also totally dedicates herself to preserving the well being of Henry. Her behavior in both of these circumstances is typical for a woman of her time.…
The author appeals to the emotions of his audience when discussing the main character’s feelings for Kate. At first, the narrator expresses regret with Kate, in simple things like not being able to see her ‘lovely knees’ often because of her work’s uniform and the feeling that while the two of them were still together, he could feel them drifting apart. Not necessarily because of their individual feelings, but because he knew that they wouldn’t be able to stay together when the time came for them to follow their plans for the future. He describes his contradicting feelings in that talking about their plans made them feel…
Still this unknown voice likewise demonstrates the reader the perversity and the craziness intrinsic in the character. She, as Harold Krebs of "Soldier's Home", has selected to drop out of life and let it go by unexamined. Harold, returning late from the war finds that it is never again news, and nobody cares what he did or why he did it. Indeed, even his cherishing mother is prepared for him to start his life. She is cited as inquiring, "Have you decided what you are going to do yet, Harold?" (Hemingway 115). He is a great case of the familiar maxim that God and the soldier are both disregarded once risk has…